Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be tedious to list the types and colours of stone , ceramic etc. used at each site in Britain ; if any picture at all emerges it is that mosaicists made good with what was easily obtained , and that the types of stone used for various shades of colour are predictable and limited in number . |
| 2 | And I suddenly realized at this stage that there was going to be something rather unexpected happening . |
| 3 | But many people only laughed at these stories . |
| 4 | Two or three months prior to the Dams Raid , when the new squadron was being formed in the spring of 1943 , ground crew personnel from all over Bomber Command were selected and sent to Scampton , the best men at their respective jobs , for what they only knew at that time was going to be one special operation . |
| 5 | The two witches suddenly looked at each other in horror . |
| 6 | But when we got to the studio , the first thing we saw were all these picture frames suspended from the ceiling — we just looked at each other and burst out laughing . |
| 7 | We just looked at each other . |
| 8 | I just looked at this piece of paper in horror and was pounced on . |
| 9 | It left quite an impression , because it needed the brilliant virtuosity that Repin already had at that time , and it needed powerful playing from the orchestra , not just loud but with a lot of richness for the fast passages — you know how to judge a great orchestra when you hear let's say thousands of notes in a few seconds , and there 's still a special timbre . |
| 10 | This time , the couple still shouted at each other , but were open and honest about how they felt . |
| 11 | Villagers said that none ever came at this time of year . |
| 12 | A much larger body , the Great Council , still survived at that date , meeting occasionally when the King wanted the views of the notables . |
| 13 | She had eaten much more than she usually did at this time of day . |
| 14 | Now , bent over a box , she nearly choked at this reference to her daughters ' poverty . |
| 15 | I also realised at that time that the future had little meaning for me . |
| 16 | During one excursion which probably occurred at this time Tom Poole took his friends to Walford 's Gibbet on the Quantock slopes between Holford and Stowey , and there recounted John Walford 's tragic history . |
| 17 | However , it also seemed at this stage that science depended on uniformity and invariance . |
| 18 | Indeed , the movement for total abstinence from alcohol , which also flourished at this time in Protestant and puritan countries , illustrates this clearly . |
| 19 | The number who cited defence as ‘ extremely important ’ for their voting decision rose from 42 per cent at the start to only 49 per cent in the third week and then it also stabilized at that level . |
| 20 | The mammals also existed at this time , starting a little later in the mid-Triassic , but in very insignificant numbers and they were tiny until after the death of the dinosaurs , after which they had more fully evolved from the pelycosaurs and therapsids . |
| 21 | Possibly the direct effects of war on the Flemish cloth towns , which suffered from the campaigns , may have been a further benefit to English producers ; indeed this may have been a more important factor in the decline of Flanders than the tariff protection enjoyed by England , because the Dutch cloth industry , which used English wool , also developed at this time at the expense of the Flemish . |
| 22 | He also decided at that moment , to his own amazement , that somehow , some time , he would have her as his wife . |
| 23 | The present drawings represent a selection from a larger exhibition ‘ Italian Master Drawings from the British Royal Collection ’ , organised by Jane Roberts of the Royal Collection in 1987 and also exhibited at that time in America . |
| 24 | We also looked at some perceptions which had attitudinal overtones . |
| 25 | Then to find all the OTHER under-5 activities we called at all the Sports Centres and Community centres in the area , and finally we also looked at ANY noticeboard ANY where ! |
| 26 | I also aimed at another thing which people consider Italian I mean a certain squareness and horizontality of outline . |
| 27 | Oil related activity in the North Sea also increased at this time , and helicopter flights to offshore sites reached record numbers in 1978 . |
| 28 | He also wrote at this time The Advocate ( 1652 ) , in defence of the Navigation Act , and a related economic tract , Free Ports ( 1652 ) . |
| 29 | She looked up at him , wide eyed at such ignorance . |
| 30 | Mr W. M. Haggarty of Ayr was unanimously elected Vice-Chairman in place of Mr C. Smith who also retired at this time , and Mr A. D. Lamond of Perth was unanimously elected to the Committee . |